Yes, because a simple "cabal install" failed, and said the only way to do it was to force-installs.
But if this is a dependency, wouldn't it be requires (or not) either way?
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> -----Original Message-----
> > Trying to bootstrap into cabal-dev seems to require some external
> > installations as well;
> >
> > >>cabal install cabal-dev --force-reinstalls
>> Maybe I'm missing some context, but is there a reason you're using the "--fore-reinstalls"
> flag? If you didn't pass that then 'cabal' maybe would not try to re-install the 'network'
> package and you wouldn't run into this.